A 21-year-old Russian Alisa Manyonok decided to give up on volleyball and go for modeling. After winning top prize at a beauty pageant in home region Primorsky Kray, in 2013, she received many offers to join the catwalk. Alisa is now mostly lingerie and swimwear model, winning contests for Miss International Russia and Supermodel International in Bangkok, Thailand, both in 2016.
There was no more time for competing in volleyball, so she decided to give up playing for a low-ranked team in Vladivostok. Modeling became option number 1 for Alisa…
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